Begun is half done. [ Proverb ]
Well begun is half done. [ Proverb ]
My dear, my better half. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
Half talent is no talent. [ Lavater ]
Half as sober as a judge. [ Charles Lamb ]
Half an acre is good land. [ Proverb ]
You meet a danger half-way. [ Proverb ]
Half-wits greet each other. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
Pleasing ware is half sold. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
They say so, is half a lie. [ Proverb ]
Half a house is half a hell. [ German Proverb ]
But O, she dances such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day,
Is half so fine a sight. [ Sir John Suckling ]
Well lathered is half shaven. [ Proverb ]
A disease known is half cured. [ Proverb ]
A fair face is half a portion. [ Proverb ]
The devil's flour is half bran. [ Proverb ]
A man surprised is half beaten. [ Proverb ]
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]
A bold onset is half the battle. [ Giuseppe Garibaldi ]
Consideration is half conversion. [ Proverb ]
A maid that laughs is half taken. [ Proverb ]
A sin confessed is half forgiven. [ French Proverb ]
Wood half-coal is easily kindled. [ Proverb ]
Words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the soul within. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
The gentle hawk half mans herself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Social sorrow loses half its pain. [ Johnson ]
A danger foreseen is half avoided. [ Proverb ]
Wood half burnt is easily kindled. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A city that parleys is half gotten. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To be half-seas over; to be mellow. [ French ]
Boldly ventured is half done (won). [ German Proverb ]
So bright the tear in Beauty's eye.
Love half regrets to kiss it dry. [ Byron ]
A man assailed is half overpowered. [ French ]
When half-gods go, the gods arrive. [ Emerson ]
Jars concealed are half reconciled. [ Thomas Fuller ]
When ware is liked it is half sold. [ Proverb ]
Yet, no - not words, for they
But half can tell love's feeling;
Sweet flowers alone can say
What passion fears revealing:
A once bright rose's wither'd leaf,
A tow'ring lily broken -
Oh, these may paint a grief
No words could ever have spoken. [ Moore ]
Half a loaf is better than no bread. [ Proverb ]
To a crafty man a crafty and a half. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Needle and thread are half clothing. [ Spanish Proverb ]
A bird in a cage is not half a bird. [ Beecher ]
A fault confessed is half redressed. [ Proverb ]
I've often wished that I had clear.
For life, six hundred pounds a year,
A handsome house to lodge a friend,
A river at my garden's end,
A terrace walk, and half a rood
Of land, set out to plant a wood. [ Swift ]
Courage in danger is half the battle. [ Plautus ]
America, - half-brother of the world! [ Bailey ]
Health without money is half an ague. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Tomorrow yet would reap today.
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
A beard well lathered is half shaved. [ Italian Proverb ]
Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream. [ Wordsworth ]
She half consents who silently denies. [ Ovid ]
Better half an egg than an empty shell. [ Proverb ]
Half-knowledge is Worse than lgnorance. [ Macaulay ]
He that has an ill name is half hanged. [ Proverb ]
A Kentish jury, hang half and save half. [ Proverb ]
Talent without tact is only half talent. [ Horace Greeley ]
Confession of a fault makes half amends. [ Proverb ]
By night an atheist half believes a God. [ Young ]
Half our misery from our foibles springs. [ Hannah More ]
A wicked woman, and an evil,
Is three half pence worse than the devil. [ Proverb ]
Health without wealth is half a sickness. [ Proverb ]
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
She that is born a beauty is half married. [ Ouida ]
Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn.
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute.
Are half so sweet as tender human words. [ Barry Cornwall ]
Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise?
To lie in dead oblivion, losing half
The fleeting moments of too short a life;
Total extinction of the enlightened soul! [ James Thomson ]
There are eyes half defiant.
Half meek and compliant;
Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm
To bring us good or to work us harm. [ Phoebe Cary ]
One of those passing rainbow dreams.
Half light, half shade, which fancy's beams
Paint on the fleeting mists that roll,
In trance or slumber, round the soul! [ Moore ]
Ninety percent of this game is half mental. [ Yogi Berra ]
He hears but half who hears one party only. [ Eschylus ]
The king's cheese goes half away in parings. [ Proverb ]
They that fear an overthrow are half-beaten. [ Proverb ]
Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. [ Pope ]
The foxglove, with its stately bells,
Of purple, shall adorn thy dells;
The wallflower, on each rifted rock,
From liberal blossoms shall breathe down,
(Gold blossoms frecked with iron-brown,)
Its fragrance; while the hollyhock,
The pink, and the carnation vie
With lupin and with lavender.
To decorate the fading year;
And larkspurs, many-hued, shall drive
Gloom from the groves, where red leaves lie.
And Nature seems but half alive. [ D. M. Moir ]
What though the mast be now blown overboard,
The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,
And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?
Yet lives our pilot still. [ Shakespeare,Henry VI ]
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs. [ Hannah More ]
Life is half spent before we know what it is. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
We cannot enjoy a friend here.
If we are to meet it is beyond the grave.
How much of our soul a friend takes with him!
We half die in him. [ William Ellery Channing ]
The bliss that can be told is but half-bliss. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Not to understand a treasure's worth,
Till time has stolen away the slightest good,
Is cause of half the poverty we feel,
And makes the world the wilderness it is. [ Cowper ]
A sorrow shared is but half a trouble,
But a joy that's shared is a joy made double. [ Proverb ]
And half in shade and half in sun;
The rose sat in her bower,
With a passionate thrill in her crimson heart. [ Bayard Taylor ]
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
Till half mankind were like himself possessed. [ Cowper ]
A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed. [ Proverb ]
A woman without beauty knows but half of life. [ Mme. de Montaran ]
Who never doubted never half believed,
Where doubt, there truth is - 'tis her shadow. [ Bailey ]
Half-witted fellows speak much and say little. [ Proverb ]
Ladies, like variegated tulips, show
'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe. [ Pope ]
Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The lion's not half so fierce as he is painted. [ Proverb ]
I have a passion for the name of Mary,
For once it was a magic sound to me,
And still it half calls up the realms of fairy.
Where I beheld what never was to be. [ Byron ]
Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true. [ Yogi Berra ]
He that died half a year ago is as dead as Adam. [ Proverb ]
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased. [ Dryden ]
As this auspicious day began the race
Of every virtue join'd with every grace;
May you, who own them, welcome its return,
Till excellence, like yours, again is born.
The years we wish, will half your charms impair;
The years we wish the better half will spare;
The victims of your eyes will bleed no more,
But all the beauties of your mind adore. [ Jeffrey ]
Two anons and a by and by, are an hour and a half. [ Proverb ]
Half the world knows not how the other half lives. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One half of the world wonders how the other lives. [ Proverb ]
The friend of order has made half his way to virtue. [ Lavater ]
Tale-bearers are commonly a sort of half-witted men. [ Proverb ]
A man will turn over half a library to make one book. [ Samuel Johnson ]
To be employed in useless things, is half to be idle. [ Proverb ]
Retreat may be success, -
Delay, best speed, - half loss, at times, whole gain. [ Robert Browning ]
Her eye (I am very fond of handsome eyes).
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flashed an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chastened down the whole. [ Byron ]
Half of them are without heart, half without culture. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Knowledge, without practice, makes but half an artist. [ Proverb ]
Fools! not to know how better, for the soul,
An honest half, than an ill-gotten whole:
How richer, he who dines on herbs, with health
Of heart, than knaves with all their wines and wealth. [ Hesiod ]
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. [ E. B. Browning ]
Who overcomes by force, Hath overcome but half his foe. [ Milton ]
Better give a shilling than lend and loose half a crown. [ Proverb ]
A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. [ Tennyson ]
It is better to take half in hand and the rest presently. [ Proverb ]
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Wise books for half the truths they hold are honored tombs. [ George Eliot ]
To a liar, a liar and a half, (i.e. one be a match for him. [ French ]
A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. [ Moore ]
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [ GoldonL ]
He that would be rich in a year will be hanged in half a year. [ Proverb ]
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical. [ Yogi Berra ]
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Idleness wastes a fortune in half the time that industry makes it. [ Smiles ]
Half light, half shade, she stood a sight to make an old man young. [ Tennyson ]
Half the ease of life oozes away through the leaks of unpunctuality. [ Anon ]
Conceited half-witted fellows think nothing can be done without them. [ Proverb ]
A person with a bad name is already half hanged,
saith the old proverb. [ Whipple ]
The flowering moments of the mind drop half their petals in our speech. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. [ Barry Cornwall ]
Thou strong seducer, opportunity! of womankind, half are undone by thee. [ Dryden ]
Look closely at those who patronise you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. [ Thomas Hood ]
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Surely half the world must be blind; they can see nothing unless it glitters. [ Hare ]
Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment. [ Victor Hugo ]
Half a word fixed upon, or near, the spot is worth a cartload of recollection. [ Gray to Palgrave ]
Uncertain whose the narrowest span, - the clown unread, or half-read gentleman. [ Dryden ]
By art and deceit men live half the year, and by deceit and art the other half. [ Proverb ]
Better to have never loved, than to have loved unhappily, or to have half loved. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. [ Pope ]
Happy he who finds a friend; without that second self one lives but half of life. [ Chenedolle ]
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. [ Southey ]
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. [ Rousseau ]
The best way to please one half of the world is not to mind what the other half says. [ Goldsmith ]
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. [ Colton ]
In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. [ Lytton ]
The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we mean, or would have, in this world. [ Bailey ]
Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. [ Rev. C. H. Spurgeon ]
Now had night measured, with her shadowy cone, half-way up hill this vast sublunar vault. [ Milton ]
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. [ Henri Beyle ]
An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. [ Goldsmith ]
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]
It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to regard half an hour as a small thing. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Scandal is what one-half the world takes pleasure in inventing, and the other half in believing. [ Chatfield ]
Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read. [ George Dawson ]
Fuss is half-sister to Hurry, and neither of them can do any thing without getting in their own way. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
I am young; I have passed but the half of the road of life, and, already weary, I turn and look back! [ A. de Musset ]
Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. [ Ausonius ]
I do not know that she was virtuous; but she was always ugly, and with a woman, that is half the battle. [ Heinrich Heine ]
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. [ Bovee ]
When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them. [ Latimer ]
Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. [ Barrow ]
Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy sad soul.... He goes always heavy-loaded, and thou must bear half. [ Fenélon ]
Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole. [ Joanna Baillie ]
The term of man's life is half wasted before he has done with his mistakes and begins to profit by his lessons. [ Jane Taylor ]
Die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. [ William Shakespeare ]
As his wife has been given to man as his best half, so night is the half of life, and by far the better part of life. [ Goethe ]
You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left. [ Yogi Berra ]
Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. [ Goethe ]
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. Sleep is the half of time which heals us. [ Richter ]
The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed. [ Addison ]
Never hunt trouble. However dead a shot one may be, the gun he carries on such expeditions is sure to kick, or go off half-cocked. [ Artemus Ward ]
Man has here two and a half minutes, - one to smile, one to sigh, and half of one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies. [ Richter ]
We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone. [ Landor ]
When thou are obliged to speak, be sure to speak the truth; for equivocation is half-way to lying and lying is the whole way to hell. [ William Penn ]
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious
detractor. [ Washington Allston ]
We learn nothing from mere hearing, and he who does not take an active part in certain subjects knows them but half and superficially. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
No man can live half a life when he has genuinely learned that it is only half a life. The other half, the higher half, must haunt him. [ Philips Brooks ]
The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies - cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends. [ Lavater ]
Women are the happiest beings of the creation: in compensation for our services they reward us with a happiness of which they retain more than half. [ De Varennes ]
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. [ Johnson ]
It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. [ Sterne ]
Half the logic of misgovernment lies in this one sophistical dilemma: if the people are turbulent, they are unfit for liberty; if they are quiet, they do not want liberty. [ Macaulay ]
Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it, who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds. [ William Shakespeare ]
I think you might dispense with half your doctors, if you would only consult Doctor Sun more, and be more under the treatment of these great hydropathic doctors, the clouds! [ Beecher ]
Men, as well as women, are oftener led by their hearts than their understandings. The way to the heart is through the senses; please their eyes and ears, and the work is half done. [ Chesterfield ]
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning. [ Joubert ]
Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others. [ Henry Drummond ]
All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries. [ Sir W. Temple ]
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinction? [ Jeffrey ]
When you leave the unimpaired hereditary freehold to your children, you do but half your duty. Both liberty and property are precarious, unless the possessors have sense and spirit enough to defend them. [ Junius ]
"No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. [ Scott ]
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half as useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense. And he that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change. [ Pope ]
Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, be his other gifts what they may, has only half a mind; an eye for what is above him, not for what is about him or below him. [ Carlyle ]
Try for yourselves what you can read in half-an-hour, ... and consider what treasures you might have laid by at the end of the year; and what happiness, fortitude and wisdom they would have given you during all the days of your life. [ John Morley ]
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]
I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. [ Beecher ]
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age - the only perfectly beautiful things on earth - joyous, innocent, half divine - useless, say they who are wiser than God. [ Ouida ]
Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown. [ Goldsmith ]
At the morning hour, when the half-awakened sun, trampling down the lingering shadows of the west, spreads his ruby-tinted tresses over jessamines and roses, drying with cloths of gold Aurora's tears of mingled fire and snow, which the sun's rays converted into pearls. [ Calderon ]
A man who cannot win fame in his own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of commonsense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. [ Burke ]
Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late. [ Goethe ]
First, girls, don't smoke--that is, don't smoke to excess. I am seventy-three and a half years old, and have been smoking seventy-three of them. But I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. Second, don't drink - that is, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry - I mean, to excess. [ Mark Twain, "Advice To Girls", 1909 ]
Two grand tasks have been assigned to the English people--the grand Industrial task of conquering some half, or more, of the terraqueous planet for the use of man; then, secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done. [ Carlyle ]
Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective. [ Chesterfield ]
Living authors, therefore, are usually bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen - for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. [ Colton ]
How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending, - the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. [ F. W. Robertson ]